ABOUT THE JOB AND YOU
Job Mission: Strategically manage procurement categories (Co-Manufacturing & Plastics: PET/HDPE) to enable business growth, innovation, supply security, cost efficiency, and sustainability, compliance.
Main Responsibilities:
- Develop sourcing strategies for Co-Manufacturing, not limited to beverage, diary, and nutriment market. Provide agile support on business capacity needs / new product development.
- Cooperate with global sourcing team on clear Resin sourcing strategy, bring back local market intelligence on oil, PET, HDPE, and macro-economy to support business decisions. Build clear rPET roadmap and sourcing strategy and prepare for future regulations open.
- Manage sourcing and procurement process, conduct tender and negotiation with suppliers on Coman and HDPE. Analyze total cost and make supplier selections aligned with long-term sourcing strategy. Deliver KPIs on cost, cash, sustainability with different sourcing tools, supply network optimization, and by leading different projects.
- Monitor Coman and Resin security of supply by agile reaction to business and monitor supplier performance through close X-function cooperation.
- Ensure end-to-end compliance, maintain strong cross-functional & global stakeholder communication.
- Build strong supplier relationship management for strategic partnering, and enable supplier’s capability to support Danone objectives on innovation, decarbonization, and so on.
- Coordinate on financial reporting for direct material team, and drive reporting digitalization.
KPIs:
- Internal control compliance
- Supply security and productivity
- Sustainability (e.g., RESPECT, De-carbonization)
- Project Delivery / Value Creation for business
Requirements:
- 3+ years procurement experience, essential in FMCG/Food & Beverage categories (Co-Manufacturing, Packaging, Plastics strongly preferred).
- Proven expertise in strategic sourcing, complex supplier management (negotiation, SRM, performance), and contract execution.
- Strong project management, cross-functional collaboration, and executive-level communication (written & verbal English).
- Analytical mindset: Ability to manage total cost, understand market trends (esp. Resin/Oil), and interpret basic financials/production data.
- Key Knowledge: Outsourcing processes OR Plastics value chain. Sustainability (ESG/rPET) a plus.
- Result-driven, proactive, agile learner. Proficient in MS Office; SAP/Power BI/Bidding systems preferred.
